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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

I have been teaching Monday Open Studios for over a year now and I love the experience. They are more informal that my three-day workshops and each Monday has a pre-determined theme. The themes have included painting boats, painting larger paintings, painting fresh flowers, painting street scenes, etc. This year I am teaching 16 Monday Open Studios and I think I have about 12 different themes.
Yesterday's theme was "painting silver". You might think this was an odd theme but since painting silver is really just painting reflections, it might make more sense. If you know me well, I LOVE to paint reflections.
I went through my silver collection and found quite a few items that I thought might make a good still life set up. Of course, they all needed polishing ... ugh.

I took about 30 different photos of the items in the photo above and finally settled on two simplified arrangements which included a bowl full of cherries and three of my sterling silver Rose Point spoons. All of the class finished the silver bowl painting and I must say, their paintings are amazing!

I finished my "three spoons" painting after the class was over. We only had 7 hours to paint which included lunch! We had a great time and we were all pleased with our completed paintings.

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Leslie Saeta is an award winning artist who paints fresh and colorful paintings using only a palette knife. She paints in her studio full time and has over 30 years of marketing experience. She is devoted to helping other artists sell their art, especially on-line. She hosts a weekly radio show on Blog Talk Radio for artists titled “Artists Helping Artists” which is a great resource tool for all artists.
Leslie has always been interested in art but officially entered the world of fine art as a novice painter in her mid forties. Her art may appear to include energetic brushwork, but she paints exclusively with a palette knife and a heavy build-up of paint. Working with a limited palette, Leslie strives to create beautiful colors and capture the light perfectly in every painting.
In addition to being a full time artist, she is a wife and mother of three teenage boys.

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